Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith
Monticello. Aug. 3. 1771. |
a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written.
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Robert Skipwith
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August 3, 1771
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Quotes by and about Thomas Jefferson
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